Information Security and Privacy: From IoT to IoV

Dear Colleagues,

We see many issues related to the implementation of digital infrastructures, and these are often caused when security and privacy are afterthoughts. Increasingly, there is a drive to create systems which are secure by design  and also focus on privacy by design. At the core of this is the integration of digital trust at each level, from electronic circuits up to the high-level integration of data. An important element of this is the integration of the citizen and the respect for the privacy of their data. The fast expansion of cyberattacks means it is crucial to share cyber threat intelligence (CTI) for the early detection of threats and to enable quick defence against them. One can automatically extract low-level cyber threat behaviours from publicly accessible CTI sources to support quick defensive decision making. To analyse text in the cybersecurity field, researchers can apply the metrics of entropy and mutual information from information theory, and novel schemes can be proposed. This Special Issue thus focuses on the key areas of privacy, resilience, trust, entropy and mutual information. Key areas include:

• Privacy-respecting systems. This includes research related to the investigation of privacy-respecting methods that can be used to preserve the rights of citizens to privacy, whilst enabling areas such as machine learning, data analytics and cybersecurity.
• Trust, privacy and resilience with smart cities. This includes research related to the integration of people, devices and systems into a smart city environment. Areas may include the IoV (Internet of Vehicles), trust with IoT infrastructures, and the cyber-reliance of smart cites.
• Citizen identity and rights in digital governance. This includes models of integrating self-sovereign identities into the IoT, IoV and/or smart city environments.
• Hardware-based security. This Special Issue also solicits research that aims to leverage hardware-based security solutions to build security into the silicon and thus provide a hardware root of trust. These hardware-based security solutions include but are not limited to physically unclonable functions, true random number generators, hardware metering, digital watermarking, hardware Trojan detection, countermeasures against side-channel attacks and hardware implementation of cryptographic functions.
• Artificial intelligence (AI) safety and security. Due to burgeoning revolution of AI, AI has proliferated in almost every domain, ranging from smart cities, agriculture, defence and transportation systems to healthcare. Although AI has also been used to assist and develop some security solutions, such as intrusion detection systems, AI itself is vulnerable to security attacks, often referred to as adversarial examples. This Special Issue also solicits research related to all aspects of AI safety and security ranging from finding vulnerabilities in AI systems to developing approaches for mitigating attacks on AI systems.
• Lightweight encryption. The goal of a lightweight encryption system is to enable security for devices with limited resources by using less memory, less computational power and less energy. This Special Issue invites researchers and academics to submit papers in the area of privacy-respecting systems, lightweight encryption and hardware-based security.
• Cyber documents and CTI reports. One can use cyber documents for the calculation of entropy and mutual information, etc. These calculated values can be used in CTI, and novel strategies can be proposed.

Prof. Dr. Bill William Buchanan
Dr. Arslan Munir
Dr. Jawad Ahmad
Guest Editors

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